William Godwin's Diary

Petion, Jerome

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 4 times, and was a venue (V) 1 time.

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1791

2  November  1791 4  November  1791 5  November  1791 (V) 5  November  1791

  • Name: Petion, Jerome
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 2  January  1756
  • Death Date: 18  June  1794

Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, Mayor of Paris and supporter of Gironde in the Revolution from 1791. Fled to the Gironde and died by his own hand in May 1794.. See The life of Thomas Holcroft, vol. 2, pp. 141-2 which refers back to a visit Petion made to London in 1791.

  • Thomas Holcroft, The life of Thomas Holcroft, continued by William Hazlitt, ed. by Elbridge Colby, 2 vols (London: Constable & Co., 1925).

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Paine, Thomas 2
Dibbin, Henry 1
Morgan, George Cadogan 1
Lister, Dr William 1
Hollis, Thomas Brand 1
Rees, Abraham 1
Kippis, Andrew 1
Priestley, Joseph 1
Horne Tooke, John 1
Holcroft, Thomas 1
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Godwin) 1
Morgan, William 1